Hilton Grand Vacations and a consumer are at odds over the Supreme Court's PDR Network decision last month (see 1906200055) and its relation to their own Telephone Consumer Protection Act fight before the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Hilton in a docket 18-14499 brief Monday (in Pacer) said PDR raises core questions about how much deference the 11th Circuit should give to FCC statements on TCPA and thus should allow rebriefing or supplemental briefing. Counsel for appellant Melanie Glasser said (in Pacer) last month PDR didn't overrule the appellate court's 2014 Mais TCPA decision and remains controlling precedent in the circuit. "PDR Network did not decide anything," it said, but instead remanded the case to another appellate court.

Comments are due July 31, replies Aug. 15 on a joint petition to delay implementing scheduled updates to the Lifeline minimum service standards and support amounts for mobile broadband and voice services that were scheduled to take effect Dec. 1, said an FCC Wireline Bureau Monday public notice on docket 11-42. Last week, CTIA and others asked the FCC for the pause until it can review a market study due in two years (see 1906280012).

Comments are due July 29, replies Aug. 13, on a request that the FCC clarify the scope of the established business relationship exemption under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act “do-not-call” provisions, said a Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau public notice Friday. The request filed in June by a Texas resident asked the agency to make clear that buying a car from a dealer doesn't create an established business relationship between the buyer and the third-party provider of satellite radio service that would let the satellite radio provider call the purchaser.

The FCC adopted a 2019-2020 funding requirement of $1.4 billion to compensate telephone carriers for telecommunications relay services used by persons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind or have speech difficulties, it said in a docket 03-123 order Friday. It also ordered new compensation rates, effective Monday, of $3.11 per minute for traditional TRS, $4.24 for speech-to-speech relay, and $2.28 for captioned telephone service. Separate rates were set for IP-enabled services (see 1905290047). The order also sets a carrier contribution factor of .028 for FY 2019-2020, starting Monday. A Friday statement from Chairman Ajit Pai said that recent changes in the Interstate Telecommunications Relay Services Fund will save nearly $409 million over the coming funding year, and spending for the fund is expected to decline for the first time since 2014 "even as overall TRS minutes increase."

Multiline telephone services (MLTS) and interconnected VoIP services aren't capable and not expected to become capable of providing location information down to the room or suite number for every single emergency call, Microsoft told the FCC in a filing posted Thursday in docket 18-261. Microsoft executives met with FCC officials to seek "clarification that MLTS providers are entitled to the same liability protections afforded wireless carriers, iVoIP services and text-to-911 services." The FCC is looking to adopt at a national level Kari's Law provisions that require building and campus MLTS systems to allow direct 911 calling (see 1902150036).

Several groups asked the FCC for extra time for comments and replies on the NPRM on a budget cap for the four USF programs (see 1905310069). In a docket 06-122 motion Thursday, they said the complexity of the issues and the potential impact on the USF programs warranted setting deadlines of Sept. 30 and Oct. 30 so as to better ensure a full record. The deadlines currently are July 15 and Aug. 12. Among the 35 signers of the motion are the National Consumer Law Center, Common Cause, the NAACP, Public Knowledge, Alaska and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Comments are due July 24, replies Aug. 23 on the Further NPRM commissioners approved as part of an anti-robocalling item earlier this month (see 1906060056), in docket 17-59. The FCC approved a declaratory ruling allowing carriers to block unwanted robocalls by default, over partial dissents by Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mike O’Rielly. The FNPRM asks about additional steps, including a potential mandate of secure handling of asserted information using tokens and secure telephone identity revisited technology, if major voice providers don’t comply with demands Shaken/Stir be implemented by year-end.

Universal Service Administrative Co. wants to hire a contractor to review and update the business process and systems requirements for its rural healthcare application systems within the USF program. USAC wants to know whether the program could be handled more efficiently through outsourcing. Solicitations to the request for proposals are due June 28.

The American Association of Suicidology joined those criticizing expanded use of 211 for a national three-digit suicide prevention hotline (see 1906110008). In a docket 18-336 posting Friday, AAS said there should be a dedicated three-digit number. It said there needs to be adequate funding provided for crisis centers to accompany that new three-digit number.

The FCC scheduled a tribal workshop July 17 at Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan in Mount Pleasant, said a public notice in Friday’s Daily Digest. It begins about 8:45 a.m. and will include information on spectrum opportunities the commission is considering that may promote expanded broadband access on tribal lands.